The government of Saskatchewan is taking the legal road less travelled. It has introduced new legislation that will make it much more difficult for those who post “revenge porn” and share other intimate images online to claim they had permission.

The Privacy Amendment Act, 2017 also creates new — and unique — legal options for people whose intimate images have been distributed without their consent.

Bill 72 makes it a tort for a person to distribute an intimate image of another person without consent and creates...